What if the serial killer next door was the person everyone trusted?

This month on Slasher & the Final Girls, we’re heading back to 1984 for bikes, paper routes, neighborhood festivals, teenage crushes…and one seriously suspicious neighbor. We break down Summer of 84 through forensic science, crime scene investigation, and psychology, from hidden bodies and sodium hydroxide to blood evidence, authority bias, and suburban paranoia.

We also dig into what makes a killer hiding in plain sight so unsettling, and why the film’s nostalgic summer setting makes its final act hit even harder.

Plus, we head to the Afterparty for 1984-inspired snacks and drinks and debate which is scarier: the obvious monster, or the familiar person you never saw coming.

This month we enter the colorful, campy, and dangerously romantic world of The Love Witch.

Austin and Nikki break down Elaine’s deadly search for perfect love, from suspicious heart failure and a hastily buried body to a ritual dagger attack that raises serious questions about blood spatter, wound depth, toxicology, DNA evidence, and how investigators uncover clandestine graves.

Courtney explores the psychology beneath the film’s glamorous surface, including the fear of rejection, the pressure to perform, desirability, and the danger of falling in love with a fantasy instead of the person standing in front of you.

Then, join us at the Afterparty for vibrant Love Witch-inspired cookies, cocktails, and mocktails as we answer the question: What is your favorite example of horror using beauty to make something feel even more unsettling?

Celebrate summer horror with Slasher & the Final Girls as we close out Red, White, and Blood Month; our salute to Americana horror, sun-soaked slashers, creepy campgrounds, and vacations from hell.

In this episode of What We Watched, we share our latest horror movie, thriller, and book recommendations, including Founder’s Day, Dead Calm, Evil Dead Burn, There’s Something Wrong with the Children, The Farm, Darkest Hour, The Bay, The Burning, and the werewolf cult classic Silver Bullet. From political slashers and yacht nightmares to found-footage eco-horror, summer-camp killers, and brutal creature features, we are covering plenty of ways your summer plans could go horribly wrong.

For our horror book club, we head to Long Island with Hunter Shea’s The Montauk Monster, a fast-paced cryptid horror story filled with secret military experiments, government chaos, mutated creatures, and extremely questionable survival instincts.

We are taking a short break from our regular WWW episodes in August, but our July full-movie episode should still be headed your way. Until then, stay out of suspicious lakes, avoid abandoned campgrounds, and prepare yourselves for our most exciting theme yet: Saw-tember.